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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I noticed that the fajr times of a local Imam Hanafi (ra) masjid have crept back and are in line with the local Imam Shafi(ra)following mosque
However when does fajr time actually reappear? And can one pray at 2am or more precisely at 1.41am...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jummah
In our recent Friday sermon, which was delivered by a brother who's not a scholar, the following claim was made:
"It is our responsibility to learn the Quran by reading it and understanding it. Those people that tell you that Quran is for...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I know that in Adhan the Muaddhin should turn his head to the right for "Hayya 'alas Salah" and then to the left for "Hayya 'alal Falah" but what about for Iqamah.
Is such a practice Bid'ah/blameworthy?
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Salah [Prayer]/Nafl
I read a hadith in Tirmidhi, were Abu Hurrariah (RA) narrates from Allah's Beloved (SAW) that who so ever pray 6 Rak'ah after Magrib and does not speak anything bad in between them would gain the reward of 15 years of Ibadah. The Hadith i read...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Can you please confirm the amount of Raka'aahs is to be performed when you combine Thuhr and Asr and the amount when you combine Maghrieb and Eshaa.
Also, does your Niyyah change during Qasr and Jam Salaah?
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Salah [Prayer]/Nafl
What is the Salat al Hajah? Is it a Sunnah or Bid'ah? How does one perform it?
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Salah [Prayer]/Nafl
What is the authencity of this hadeeth: Hazrat Sa’eed Ibn Jubair (radhiallahu anhu) narrates that the Sahaabah (radhiallahu anhum) used to regard the performing of four rakaats before the fardh of isha as mustahab....
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Salah [Prayer]/Jummah
Is it permissable to lead the Jummah prayer by performing the whole Khutbah in English. After the Adhan A few words are said in Arabic and the remainder is in English and like wise the second sermon is performed in the same way. This is the...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
I would like to know if it is valid for a late comer to the fard salah to join the prayer with someone who's finishing their sunnah salah? It happened to me where I was praying my sunnah after fard and a brother joined me to pray his fard...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fard and Wajib
As salamu aleykum, What is the authencity of this hadeeth: Hazrat Sa’eed Ibn Jubair (radhiallahu anhu) narrates that the Sahaabah (radhiallahu anhum) used to regard the performing of four rakaats before the fardh of isha as...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fard and Wajib
Please mention the proof from ahadith of Hanafi Witr salaah in regards of:
-That it is 3 rakat with 2 sittings.
-That before qunut the takbir must be pronounced and the hands must be raised up to the ears
-That when reading the qunut the...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
My aunt was telling us that salaat should not be read in a darkened room. I was wondering what the correct settings would be. I often like having the lights down as it helps me focus, but I wanted to be sure that this would be appropriate.
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
In ruku, is the dua to be recited out loud. It appears to be differences in the schools of thought, though I read in a hadith that says, "when the Imam says: Allah listen to the one who praises Him, then say: O Allah! Ou Lord, to you be all...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
The Imam led prayer and in the second Salah he read the ayah 'tahiyyatuhum yauma yalqawnahoo salaam. wa a adda lahum jannaat'. It's supposed to be ajran kareema. He went into ruku straight away and finished salah. After salah, a muqtadi got...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
A relative of mine tells me often that we can join two prayers (zuhur and Assar, or Maghrib and Ishaa) if we are in journey, or if its about to rain or something.
I told him that I have never seen any such hadith, because I asked a nearby...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
One has woken another Muslim to pray fajr, but the other Muslim struggles to wake. One does not wish to be harsh in waking one's fellow Muslim, but one has duties to attend to. If one leaves the other Muslim, one believes they will miss the...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
When joining a prayer that has already begun, does one need to wait after making takbir for the equivalent of three subhanallahs before going into ruku' sajda etc.
If the imam starts to say sami Allahu liman hamida before you reach ruku,...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
What is the fiqh regarding returning to the prayer at the point one left it if one felt a need to use the toilet, broke wudhu and then made wudhu again?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I just wanted to know whether we could read salah in a room where there is a poster of birds, also wondering if we could read where there are trophies such as boxing trophies which present statue like figure of a boxer.
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
We have a prayer room at work, alhamdulillah. Sometimes brothers miss the jamat times and often a solitary brother begins praying at that particular time. If a newcomer enters the room, should he join the lone brother, whether he intended to...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jummah
Is it permissible to do perform Jummah at school because going out of school is a bit of a problem.
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Salah [Prayer]/Sunnah
I wanted to know whether it was possible to stagger the times for performing Sunnah Salah for example, reading Isha with Jamaat, then reading the Sunnah and Witr a few hours later.
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Can you please advise me as to the ruling on offering your salaat on time. if I am very busy I will complete the task at hand than offer my salaat but I have been told that I should drop whatever I am doing, offer my salaat and than resume,...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Please could you give a reference for the Ayat or Hadith that shows Zuhur and Asr to be quiet prayers and the rest to be out loud.
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I don't usually watch the Islam Channel but very recently Yusuf Estes said some things which I found disturbing and I would like some clarification on:
1) He said there was no proof in Hadith that the Prophet (SAW) used to put his hand below...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I wanted to know why the Hanafi Madhab requires women to pray salaah differently? Where is the evidence for this? According to the Bukhari hadith where the Prophet pbuh stated that "prayer as you see me prayer..." surely applies to both...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jummah
I have a question regarding Jummah Salah.
The company we work for has been kind enough to provide us with a prayer room and wudu facilities and currently we perform Dhur and Asr Salahs in Jammat.
The nearest Masjid is approximately...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jummah
I have been told by a Mufti not to pray Jum'uah inside my University but to pray Dhuhr instead. Another Shaykh told me to pray Jum'uah. Please could you advise me on what to do and explain why there is this difference of opinion.
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Salah [Prayer]/Nafl
Whenever i try to read Tahajjud Salah or try to do Ibaddah at night my two year old son wakes up and i can not continue with my Salah or Ibaddah.
I started to think why this may be and get very very sad because i am beggining to think that...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
How strong is the compulsion to pray at the mosque? If one's wife is not praying at the time of Jama'at because, the baby is crying and/or one's wife is cooking, if no one else is around to help, should one leave them for the jama'at, or...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
What is the sunna of recitation in prayer?
I heard that one should not follow a shorter surah with a longer one. Is this in the whole prayer, or just in a single raka'at. What is the ruling of this?
I also heard one should recite in...
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Salah [Prayer]/Traveller
When going on a journey, for example, after zhur do you pray zhur then go even though you know you will miss asr or do u pray asr as well. What are the rules in combining when traveling for example zhur asr would you do zhur at 530 if asr...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Do I have to make up missed salah for the period I was not practising?
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
Arrive promptly for the jama'at...or miss the beginning?
Is it better for me to arrive promptly for the jama'at, or to pick up a friend and miss the beginning?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Is it permissable to close your eyes during salah, if it helps concentration?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I have noticed that several brothers would raise their hands in du'a while reciting the prescribed durood at the end of adhan. I also recite the durood but don't lift my hands. Which practice is correct?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Some of the later Ahnaf have used the following Hadith to validate the placing of the hands beneath the navel in Salah from the Musannaf ibn Abi Shaiba: Wa'il ibn Hujr said: "I saw al Nabi - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam - place his...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Regarding Salah, when praying there's a teacher who prays with us who doesn't put a Musalah down or anything clean where we do Sajdah, is it permissible to just pray on the carpet, which is a normal classroom. Another question raised...
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Salah [Prayer]/Traveller
If you had some food in your mouth and you spat once, does this make the prayer invalid?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fard and Wajib
If the Salah time is running out, and I have to pray, but I need to go to the toilet, which would take me at least 15 minutes because of the time it requires for all the urine to leave the penis. What should I do?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
If I prayed my prayers with tayammum or made wudhu but I had a excuse (blood flows always) or some other condition, do I have to pray the prayers again later?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
When I pray in congregation on the musala, I sometimes have to move my forehead till I find a place where the whole forehad can be flat on the floor. This problem is because under the carpet we have some uneven bumps. But if the whole forehead is...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Is praying qadha a must? did the Sahaba or Tabbien say we should pray qadha? i.e those prayers we have missed in our past when we didn't pray? For example, when I was young, I didn't know the tenets of my faith, nor did I know that it was...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
When I was on my 4th rakah of salatul asr, I lost myself in the recitation of al-fatiha, I couldn't somehow recite "sirataladhina an amta alayhim", I somehow said in myself "bismillah irrahman irrahem", and then I began reciting al-fatiha from...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I was unaware of the importance of tahara before, and that you have to make ghusl after the semen exits your private part and so on, do I have to repeat the prayers I have prayed in such state? even if i was unaware of it? For instance I might...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
When I lead the prayer as imam, I often get waswas that i am pronoucing the ayahs wrong. And recently I led the prayer in the mosque as an imam, and I tried to avoid these waswasa, but then on "ghayril magdubi alayhim", I got waswasa and I'm...
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Salah [Prayer]/Sunnah
I work part time and the facilities and times for praying are very strict. The prayer room is located far and the breaks are short, by the time one has done wudhu and reached there, there is little time left to read Salah. When there is a shortage...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fard and Wajib
At my workplace I requested a prayer room for sisters or atleast a screen to be provided to segerate us when we need to pray. They have refused both my requests and as a muslim female I'm not sure what to do as I understand that you can not...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Why do people raise their hands before and after sujud?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Can a person of the Hanafi madhab pray Asr salah at the Shaafi time if a Jama'ah is happening whilst the Hanafi time for Asr has not started yet. ?
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Salah [Prayer]/Nafl
The best salah after the Faraid Salawat is the Tahajud prayer, and we know from the Hadith in refrence of Ibn Umar, that no one can achive the true nearness of Allah without this salah. My Question is regarding its timing, I know that some Ulama...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
The prayer for salah is it the same prayer the prophet (pbuh) said word for word. I noticed in englsh transalation the prayers for salah say "peace be upon you, o prophet!" did he say that to himself when he prayed too? Just need to know whether...
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Salah [Prayer]/Traveller
Pray is a pillar of Islam. I am a revert and have been trying to learn the pray. When I read the translation from Arabic to English I noticed the pray changes from praying to Allah to praying to the Prophet. As-Salam Alaika Ayyuhan Nabiyyu...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
In Salah, for a women is her whole body besides here hands and feet is Awrah? What if some hair (from the head) is showing and one did not know but when they found out and they immedialty covered it would they have to repeat that Salah?
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Salah [Prayer]/Sunnah
I just want clarify your opinion whether we can read the sunnats rakats missed for example at the start of Juma or any other namaz due to lateness, and if so are these to be read after the fard rakats?
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Salah [Prayer]/Traveller
Do you have to read Sana in each new unit of Salah or do you read it once at the beginning of the first unit of Salah that you perform. EG. If reading 4 sunnats,4 farz, 2 sunnat and 2 nafil of Zuhr, do I read Sana only at the start of the 4...
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Salah [Prayer]/Sunnah
Can husband and wife do Tarawih and Tahajjud salah at home in Jamaat with the husband leading the prayer?
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Salah [Prayer]/Sunnah
Who is more closer to the sunnah when it comes to Salah, Imam Shafi (RA) or Imam Abu-Hanifa (RA)?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
On the night of al-Isra w'al-Mi'raj (the Night Journey), we read that the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) led all the other messengers/prophets in prayer at majid al-Aqsa. Do we know which prayer this was and was it before the gift of salah (5...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
We are travelling abroad tomorrow, my wife is very strict in her niqaab. When we pray our Salaah in public places, my wife has to take her niqaab off as she is not allowed to perform salaah with her face covered. My question is can my wife pray...
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Salah [Prayer]/Traveller
Very often I am away from home in a new place where I am unable to find a mosque or suitable place where I can offer my salah. Many a time I have to read Qaza and am really remorseful. Frankly, I am embarrassed to ask Allah for forgiveness in...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jamaat
In light of the following can you please comment on dua after Salah.
http://www.al-inaam.com/fataawa/dua_hands.htm
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Salah [Prayer]/Traveller
what is the islamic ruling on praying in a mosque which does not follow your aqeedah. if one is travelling in a diffrent town and has to pray is it permissible for him to pray at the mosque although he may not beleive in what they believe?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Is it true that when women pray salah their hair should not be tied in a high bun like the sikh women?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
Could you tell me which salah's are read out loud?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I'm a born Muslim, but only started practicing recently. I am really confused about something. I go by Hanafi Fiqh but I was told by a friend that we should be following the fiqh of Shaykh Albanee.
How do we know, who is upon the Truth?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I know that if you read salat while holding the Quran in hand, your salat breaks but can you please provide with some reference (hadees etc) for this.
Also, is it allowed for the imam to wait for someone while leading the salat, if he hears the...
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Salah [Prayer]/Traveller
I recently had an interview for university and they gave us a 10 min break they did not allow me to go to the prayer room as there would be less time so they gave me a room to pray in. I did not know which way to pray and I didn't bring a compass...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
According to the Hanafi madhab, we perform tashahhud by making a circle with our thumb and middle finger and raising the index finger. Can I have the procedure for the other three imams i.e Imam Shafi, Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal and Imam Malik, May...
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Salah [Prayer]/Jummah
I have a question about the validity of the reading of Jumuah prayers at my workplace. In a previous question, you had detailed the permissibility of us conducting Jumuah prayers in our prayer room at work. This has been highly beneficial as...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fard and Wajib
Is it permissible to pray in the dark, so much so that you can't see your sajdah spot?
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
I know of a couple of local mosques that actually have their qiblah direction approximately 45 degrees on either side of the actual qiblah direction.
Even in college we have had some differences regarding the direction of the Qiblah.
Could you...
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Salah [Prayer]/Fiqh Issues
As proven from the ahaadeeth and scholar's verdicts when is it best time to stand up when the mu'adhin is calling out the Iqaamah? I once heard an imaam say in one masjid that it is mustahab to stand up upon hearing Hayya alal falah, is this...
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